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What sours Israel-EU relations

Israeli officials mistakenly believe that the world is coming closer to Israel in policy and values in the aftermath of the Brussels terror attacks.
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In the corridors of power in Jerusalem, one can detect a sense of satisfaction lately. Ministers and senior officials believe that the world is coming closer to Israel in policy and values in the aftermath of the March 22 Brussels terror attacks and the migration crisis in the European Union and the United States.

When Minister of Transportation and Intelligence Yisrael Katz chastised Belgians for eating chocolate rather than fighting terror, he represented a prevalent view in the government that the Europeans are about to see the light and understand that the real problem in the Middle East is Islamic terror, not the Palestinian issue, and that terror in Paris and Brussels is not different from terror in Tel Aviv.

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